somebody commented that i didn't make it clear so here it is:

STINKINGCAMEL.BLOGSPOT IS OFFICIALLY CLOSED!

thanks all for your readership and comments all this time 有缘再见! =D

p.s.: this is like a 又长又臭的 post. haha but u are not obliged to read! warning : it's freaking long & it's full of nonsense. :P

my break from studying = come up here to entertain my readers. "readers" sounds like a hell lot of people, but frankly i believe it's only salachewbabi & trots reading stinkingcamel. xD & random passerbys like 'anonymous'. no offence ar anonymous, random doesn't have any negative connotations here. (:

so anyway, final exams are coming, & like always, mom made 泡参 (some magical herbal drink that will allow you to pass your exams w/o studying stay awake all night mugging.) and when i drank it i had the same reaction as the baby below:

to salachew stinkingcamel's loyal fan, this is dedicated to u!

and yes i know. the baby's wayyy cuter, cuddlier, adorable, & obviously younger than me. but i can tell you we share the same facial expressions (minus the grinning) when i drank my 泡参 just now. -.- though i've drunk it many times before, the bitter-ish, siapsiap taste never fails to make me squirm & shudder. brr.

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i spent the rainy afternoon sleeping away. (: flipping my body clock upside down so that i can study at my primetime - which is bout 10pm to 4am. but i'd better make a mental note to flip it backwards when finals come. :/ cos i can totally picture myself waking up in a fluster at 9 plus in the morning and breaking my record for shuttle run as i rush to the exam hall for the dsc paper which starts at 9.

& that kind of reminded me of how wulijie & i ran IN THE RAIN to mpsh for stats mid terms. haha how memorable! ok i'm just kidding. it wasn't 罗曼地克 at all at that moment we were more like "urgh what the hell the rain sucks will i be late for the exam AHHHH"

talking about 罗曼地克 (chinese lingo for 'romantic') just now while it was pouring outside my house i was all of a sudden captivated by the beauty of nature and decided to dangle my feet out in the rain for fun.

hmm i realised that sounded like a scene in a horror film. :O


me dangling feet in the rain

i added the caption that the legs are fake cos when i finished drawing it on paint i got scared by it. -.- i hope little kids don't come to this space. =x

back to topic, it's quite nice feeling the raindrops fall on your feet. (: cold, tickling sensation. rather romantic right =D no?? but that's how they depict romance in mediacorp dramas? couples sharing an ice cream cone under an umbrella while sitting on the rooftop (tsk, dangerous seh. raining leh the rooftop not slippery meh) and dangling their feet in the rain... or maybe two people do = refreshing. one person do = retarded. hahahaha.

and i suddenly remembered a question that's been bugging me for long; can a person be romantic even when he or she is alone? wah seh. chim question. ok i shall preach bout this another time today's post is purely to entertain. haha.

yeah anyway i was scamming all of you! why would i bo dai bo ji (dialect for no rhyme or reason) go and dangle my foot in the rain. what actually happened was i accidentally stepped on remnants of the fish noodle soup i had for lunch and was lazy to go to the toilet to wash my feet so i went out the door and "washed" them in the frontyard. HAHA.

and at that point of time as i was innocently washing my feet with raindrops and keeping a lookout for any neighbours who would witness my bizarre act, i was reminded of the whole mediacorp drama romantic thing and hence the rubbish above. & for some reason i thought of robber! whom i left on my bed in hall. :/

so i decided to sms him (kidding la! i was smsing trots. i'm not that siao. & anyway robber doesn't have a phone :P) but as some of you might have found out when you visited my house. lentor link has absolutely ZERO reception in the living room. -____-

it's most exasperating having to raise my nokia 3120 up above my head and pacing around the living room just to find a space that can be detected by M1...

but anyway, smart me saves the day! i managed to find the perfect spot that will have 3 bars of reception in the entire living room = the leftmost stretch of the long sofa, and i left my phone there for the rest of the day.

now that i know where it is, it will make things easier for guests too. i vaguely remember a friend who came to my house and stayed till late and she was very surprised cos her parents didn't call her even though she was out till so late. it was only after that when she realised her parents tried countless times to reach her on her phone but couldn't cos my living room's got no reception. ahahahahaha. xD

on a sentimental note, lentor link hmm...... my home for 10 years le! soon i can't call it home anymore. it's such a weird feeling, just like for 716. (yes my old house which the poor juniors have to listen to me drone bout whenever we go to kfc to eat. :P) there's like so much memories in this house, since i did alot of growing up here. (i can almost hear dahui protesting, "u where got grow up?" lol) i realise the real significance of an inanimate object e.g. a house lies in the fact that it stood the test of time together with you. it's like, the house 'watched' me grow (sounds like another horror film scene again).

ALRIGHT! i'll spare you and emo somewhere else. by the way, i failed my driving test. -_- k loser etc, whatever. i'm just glad it's over and i can study for finals properly now. otherwise last night, all i hear in my mind is, "signal", "left turn", "blindspot", "emergency brake" as i was reading econs game theory notes. o.O mom told me to tell her the results when it's done and i smsed her a crisp "fail" and i think it sort of got her worried and she started consoling me. haha but i'm really alright with it! i mean, i've tried my best and i failed. i just try again lor. (just that it's very expensive la. ahhhh my bank account $__$)

the real reason why i'm still quite happy despite failing test today is cos: i realised my AWESOME 3RD BRO (i'm so happy that i'm praising him rare leh haha) managed to retrieve all my VIDEOS from mom's old laptop (which crashed, rmb?) and saved it all in a folder!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. SO HAPPY I TELL YOU. I HARDLY USE CAPS BUT THIS IS LIKE THE OCCASION FOR TYPING IN CAPS =DDDDDD yay i love u la san ge. even though your jokes are not as funny as mine and you sing horribly. =X

and with the videos i have on hand i shall dedicate the following video to stinkingcamel's 2nd loyal fan: TROTTER TEO XIU WEN! (:


taken in AMB Thailand trip 2006 (our grad trip! :D) watch trotter take the stairs and escalators in a random thai restaurant while the people in the background e.g. mr lim! are oblivious to what she's doing xD

we've come to the end of the 又长又臭的 post. hope ur eyes are still fine! (: but no worries, i reckon such posts will cease to exist. i'm thinking of shutting down stinkingcamel. :/ no inspiration to blog alr hoho. (i know you're staring at the screen in disbelief now "wah lau u just wrote a load of rubbish still say no inspiration!") i don't know how to explain la. like, there's no purpose in blogging here? since i don't really say much serious stuffs here...

i'll see if anybody can sell me some inspiration. haha. & like before, i won't delete the blog cos i like my archives. =P

byebye! =D

"the greatest thing you will ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." ~ [Moulin Rouge!], 2001

"the greatest thing you will ever learn is to sleep zzz for an entire afternoon while it's raining outside." ~ author of stinkingcamel

just woke up from 5 hours of sleep and i'm damn high now. HAHA! sorry for this short & meaningless post i shall edit it soon. (:

p.s: the sec 4s ended their agony today! YAY.

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so i'm back to edit the post but actually i've nothing to add. -.- haha shall talk bout today's random outing then?

hmm so last night salachew spoke to me on msn and told me that apparently we were supposed to have a lunch date on 14th nov, one day after her Os ended, but we both clean forgot bout it, until her phone 'reminded' her. hence, we decided to meet for lunch today, with shahril! (:

well somehow we were discussing salachew's cheeks and the topic sorta went to "how you can use screwdrivers to customize dimples on your face". yes with our specially-designed screwdimplers (i just invented the name) you could have dimples anywhere you want on ur face; your cheeks, forehead, & even chin! :D but of course this process requires you to do some tedious exercises every morning in front of the mirror... hee k i'm getting carried away.

after our lunch at pastamana we proceeded to hunt for more food round northpoint. & shahril and i decided to prank on babi saying we will tag... on her tagboard that she has cheeky cheeks! woo yes & she was scared stiff =D and on the mrt we staged our own gameshow, [who can say izyan rozana's full name the fastest?] and you could imagine as the three of us attempted nonstop to mouth izyanrozanabintemohammadnejib as quickly as we can the entire carriage looked pretty amused.

salachew obviously won the competition, having practised saying that name up there on many occasions when izyan was late. shahril was quite good at it too, and we wonder why. ;) haha. i'm the worst la. i kept saying "izyanmohammadbintenejib. eh where's the rozana? ...zz". but i'm inspired to practise more at home and showdown with them again on 1 dec! =D

so riri & i continued our journey to orchard mrt stn where we joined rachel and a very distraught stubs on their shopping for prom! stubs was appalled to see me there (i could tell from her face haha). well i shan't disclose much bout the shopping since i've got a feeling somebody doesn't want details of the trip to be published here. xD

fast forward >> we met dahui for dinner at hub! our dear miss seah said something REALLY FUNNY during dinner at [my dessert house] which made me and stubs laugh like mad. dahui says the funniest things w/o realising it. lol stubs' ah ma being the 不用回家的老人! hahahaha!

& & &! our after-dinner entertainment brought to us by florencetay featuring her walking around the shoeshop in heels. :P salachew laughed till she teared! omg but the funniest part must be when the salesgirl very unceremoniously & violently twisted stubs' leg sideways so that she could see the size at the bottom of the heels. HAHAHAHA! the four of us (riri, dahui, chew & i) turned our faces the other way & died trying to stifle our laughter...

this is my fun day out. i need to sit my butt down and start mugging.

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one afternoon in the kitchen...

me: 我想睡觉.
papa: 想睡就去睡啦！
me: 不可以！
papa: 为什么？
me: 我需要读书!!!
papa: 你如果很累，读了也不能concentrate。还不如去睡觉。
me: ...
papa: 除非你要像古人.
me: 古人做么leh?
papa: 古人读书的时候如果觉得很疲倦，他们就会拿screwdriver插进自己的大腿.
me: omg, 读书读到这样on啊?!
papa: 真的！古人就是这样的，刻苦耐劳...
me: ...等一下! 你骗人lor！以前哪里有screwdriver?!
papa: hmm.............
me: wah lau pa, 你骗人!
papa: ...好像不是screwdriver la，可能是用刀片之类的东西.
me: 你刚才又说是screwdriver.............. -.-

moral of the story: for all you readers out there who aspire to become parents yourselves in future and desire to instill positive morals in your children with a fable or traditional folklore, better proof-read your story in your head before your kid finds a loophole & starts to wonder bout the credibility of ur tale. =D

yeah mug! i want to play, but M comes before P, so i have to Mug first before i Play.

grrr why can't Sleep start with A ar. zz

人之初,性本善.

the more i think about it, the more i think it's rubbish. (i'm risking kena scolded 三字经 by 三字经 fans, but i shall persevere since i alr started.)

nah, i didn't just get flashed at by a 60 year old tikopek or kena free-riden by fellow project groupmates (like sokmui who seems to be living in a world that's full of those), neither did somebody steal my laokokkok handphone or burn down the subway outlet in nus.

nor am i being cynical and lamenting, "*sighs* there's no goodness in this big, evil world". in fact, i do believe in kindness in people.

just that i don't think it is an innate feature in humans. put it in another way, i don't think being kind to others comes natural to us.

i'm not typically an avid fan of science, but dad ever mentioned to me that whatever feelings that we experience, so-called with our heart, are actually triggered off by the chemical reactions in our body that send signals to our brain, making us "feel" good or bad. all those chemicals like endorphins etc, of which i'm sure everyone knows of, yada yada. i won't go into details cos chemistry is never my thing.

but my point is, i've reason enough to believe that, no matter what we do, everyone's ultimate aim to feel good about themselves. and every action that we execute serves to achieve that purpose. meaning our natural instinct would always be to do something that benefits ourselves, and not others.

there's so many people who claim, "being natural is good! i hate artificial stuffs." while i don't have anything personal against that statement. doing things the way that comes to you as natural... is just. well. i've limited vocab.

to think about it. our body is conditioned in a way that certain habits just come natural to us. like, hunger. you would forget to go for your tutorial, but would you ever forget that you need to eat? (this question is not applicable to u if your name is trotter teo xiu wen.)

would you ever forget to be sleepy?
would you forget to be afraid?
would you forget to be jealous?

you won't, or more precisely, you can't. these feelings just come natural to u. but on the other hand, you have to make an effort and constantly remind yourself to:

love & treasure the people around you
not take things for granted
care more for the environment
stop being lazy/obnoxious/all other negative traits that's making your life miserable

and my conclusion is, i don't agree with going along with the "natural flow". sometimes you have to fight against nature, fight with yourself, to become the person you want to be, and to live the life you want for yourself. it's easy to blame what you are on the influence of your environment, but i think everyone has the power to teach themselves to go against what they're born/brought up to be.

人之初,性本恶. you must 抵抗 yourself in order to 改变.

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ok, i bet all of you skipped all that and scrolled to these stars (***) here straightaway. -.-

by the way, 300th post for this blog! so fast ar. 300 posts in 6 years (since i started in oct 2003) = 50 posts a year = 1 post per week. that's quite a figure.

i've organised no party for my dear stinkingcamel, perhaps the only thing i can do for it is to get some soap & water for it to bathe. but then i decided against it cos that means i'd have to change the blog name to fragrantcamel.blogspot.com or something. haha i'm talking nonsense.

off to eat dinner bye!

4th nov marks the day of [noise] my last ever performance for this semester. it is most peculiar to walk back to my room after acapella performance with this mixture of euphoria, relief & that empty, hit-by-reality feeling rushing thru my veins.

why euphoria:
cos acapella went pretty well and everyone was in good cheer after that. i attribute that partly to the comical ending to our song thanks to our oblivious canteen vendor auntie. xD (she sort of noisily pushed a trolleyloads of stuffs across the comm hall while we were holding our LAST NOTE. haha super funny everyone was laughing like mad!)

& xinyao, our 无乐不作! it went better today, though i still think we played best during friday's rehearsal... poor eileen, playing the guitar with a fever. but still i think we rock! (: love love 无乐不作 =D

why relief:
i didn't (really) screw up my solo, which is a relief cos i certainly made my acapella mates very worried during practices with my unstable runs. and we all so worked hard for this, can't afford to sabo them! :/

these few weeks of practising for xinyao's internal concert and acapella for [noise] seriously got me really tired and i fell behind for tons of tutorials. now that all the performances are over, everyone in hall is gearing up for studying for term exams. i can't help but feel relieved that i'd get to sleep more now that it's over. and i can start doing my tutorials.

why that empty, hit-by-reality feeling:
i've discussed this vaguely with sokmui before. about how practices prior to a concert get us all tired & sleepless and anxious and frustrated and busy like shit while all the tutorials pile up and how we can't wait for it to be over so that we can go back to our "normal" lives.

but somehow, ONCE THE CONCERT IS OVER, u get overwhelmed by this sense of emptiness and uneasiness almost immediately. the very next day u already start to miss seeing ur bandmates; 3 days later miss the touch of ur instrument; and a week later the smell of the bandroom.

all of a sudden, life looks super meaningless and boring w/o a performance to prepare for and look forward to. haha contradictory i know! hmm. life w/o playing music must be the hardest thing to get used to..?

right, scrape that. to start doing tutorials is harder to get used to, i think.

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during one acapella practice last night while we were chilling with anh's grandmother's :O guitar...

all: *singing* 缓缓飘落的枫叶像思念...

me: *stops suddenly* HEY! u know what? we should meet up to sing & play music even after tmr's performance...

yinyue: yes omg! i think can die lor, after tmr just mug mug mug everyday.

me: i think i won't be able to stand it. if we can't meet up i'm gonna bring my RECORDER from home to play at night i dont care!

and that i'm absolutely serious. my da ge took my his guitar back to jude's house, which leaves the recorder as the only musical instrument in working order at home. (violins' strings are broken and i don't think it's advisable to transport the guzheng to my hall & even if i wanted, the guzheng would probably disintegrate into pieces when we lift it out of its ancient casing. =X)

i'm giving myself a break today & not do work (like ali said, tonight totally isn't the correct mood to mug!) and since i'm incoherent and i've nothing else to say i shall go sleep now.

night all! (:

i'm hungry hungry hungry! even though i just had lunch 4 hours ago ...

so, today's the 1st alr. bad. very bad. november is a bad month. i won't have time to sleep, most likely. what with xinyao & acapella concerts coming up next week. driving test (!) and final term exams. there's no chance of sleeping enough. and i'm falling behind in tutorials. how wonderful.

*kisses goodbye to God of Sleep*

talking about sleep, there was xinyao rehearsal last friday night, and eileen & i decided to go jam in the band room after that. we were playing dumb songs like, "rudolf the rednose reindeer" and the classic "canon in d" with the help of wei yi. and even randomly got the pa crew who were doing recording to join us in singing chinese pop. haha super fun la. we did that till 3am. o.O shhh.

anyway, the point is, year3laoahma & i decided to camp overnight in the band room cos there was AIR-CON! (: at around 4am in the morning u could see 2 figures sneakily transporting pillows and blankets along the flooded corridors (it was pouring heavily that night). i do hope we weren't caught on cctv.

despite the air-con it was unfortunately a very uncomfortable experience sleeping in the band room cos we were sleeping on chairs and amplifiers. -.- yes, amplifiers for the electric guitars and keyboards. i swear i could vaguely hear my backbone crack while i was asleep. we unanimously decided it was better sense to bring sleeping bags the next time...

woo my chicken rice is ready! :D

because i've officially mastered THE ART OF SURVIVING ON THREE HOURS OF SLEEP DAILY, i'm not afraid that i'm still awake at 3:47am even though i've lessons at 8am later.

i find myself incredible, alive and kicking despite sleeping at 4am and waking up at 8am (or earlier) for the past 4 days or so. i think i'm becoming like those tibetan monks who can forgo food & sleep and survive on dew drops & meditation.

well, maybe not dew drops for me. subway perhaps? =D

hmm k first want to apologise for my prolonged absence, though i've never deemed myself as accountable to readers. :/ lol but still, i know how dumb it must feel to revisit a blog that always shows the same old page with the same old words and the same dumb camel.

just that i haven't had anything happened that's worthy enough to be shared with everyone and well, i'm just plain occupied with stuffs in my life i find it physically taxing to blog. (you'd reckon from the first statement of this post that if i ever had free time to myself, i would have gladly used it for sleeping.)

excuses aside. i wanted to say something about living on campus 24 hours a day, 5 days a week. it does have this weird effect on me. makes me feel like i've suddenly been thrown into this little NUS world and made to conform to its workings and the motions.

i don't know if it's the lack of sleep or what, but i find myself very wood-ish nowadays. wood-ish not as in i'm always stoning or daydreaming. i'm perfectly aware of what's going on around me but it's just that i've minimal responses towards them. :/ (i know somebody is going to mention the 'j' word here again, but i assure u i'm not!)

because i'm tired/sleepy, i don't really feel like talking nowadays (unless lijie my personal entertainer is there) and i use my eyes & ears more often. observing the people on campus has become my favorite hobby in school. haha. i get fascinated by some of the people i meet. they might not the prettiest, most popular or hunkiest person around, but they are just downright interesting to observe. omg. i don't know how to explain so that i don't sound like some boliao voyeur. -.-

anyway, two things that made me laugh hard this week:
i) jamming last night with year3laoahma & aliseah!
ii) the eupho bet during practice just now with the old 'kids' xD

they won't get to read this but i still want to say they rock! (: hoho and there's something exciting in blogging about someone who doesn't know the existence of ur blog. hee k i'm just being siao.

good morning all i'm gonna sleep now! =D

p.s: regarding the coffee in the previous post, i found out that it has actually expired a month ago. -.- don't beat me please i only realised when my hall neighbours told me. :/